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Speaker 1: Brain with today's question, what is the difference between a
Speaker 1: hardwood and a soft wood? When we talk about a
Speaker 1: hardwood floor, what are we actually talking about? As it
Speaker 1: turns out, a hardwood is not necessarily a harder material.
Speaker 1: It's not more dense or somehow stronger, and in the
Speaker 1: same way, a soft wood is not necessarily a softer material,
Speaker 1: meaning less dense or softer or less strong. For example,
Speaker 1: balsa wood is one of the lightest, least dense woods.
Speaker 1: There is easily dented with your fingernail and it's considered
Speaker 1: a hardwood. So what's going on here. The distinction between
Speaker 1: hardwood and softwood actually has to do with plant reproduction.
Speaker 1: All trees reproduced by producing seeds, but the seeds structure varies.
Speaker 1: Hardwood trees are angious sperms, plants that produce seeds with
Speaker 1: some sort of covering. This might be a fruit like
Speaker 1: an apple or a hard shell like an acorn. Soft Woods,
Speaker 1: on the other hand, are gymnas sperms. These plants let
Speaker 1: seeds fall to the ground as is, with no covering.
Speaker 1: Pine trees, which grows seeds in hard cones, fall into
Speaker 1: this category. In conifers, like pines, these eeds are released
Speaker 1: into the wind once they mature. This spreads the plants
Speaker 1: seed over a wider area. For the most part, angios
Speaker 1: sperm trees lose their leaves during cold weather, while gymnasperms
Speaker 1: trees keep their leaves all year round. So it's also
Speaker 1: accurate to say that evergreens are soft woods and deciduous
Speaker 1: trees or hardwoods. The hardwood softwood terminology does make some sense.
Speaker 1: Evergreens do tend to be less dense than deciduous trees,
Speaker 1: and therefore they're easier to cut. While most hardwoods tend
Speaker 1: to be more dense and therefore sturdier, but as the
Speaker 1: classification of bostil wood demonstrates, there's no minimum weight requirement
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